MEANING
Neglecting to prepare for future needs or consequences.
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- improvident spending
- improvident choice
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Improvident spending exhausted the estate.
His improvident choice left no winter supplies.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more improvident; superlative most improvident where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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